Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes

I think it's the strength of her music, using art to make a statement. I think it really is. It was not a cheap gift. The gift was an expensive gift for Nina [Simone]. Diamonds are expensive. Her music was expensive. She paid for it, but I think it's her greatest gift.

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.

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• The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.

  

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• Politics is the art of the next best.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
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• Through a painting we can see the whole world.

  

  Hans Hofmann
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• The good part is if I play a solid round of golf, it will be very hard for the others to beat me. And that's all I'm thinking about.

  

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• Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.

  

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• In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.

  

  Gavin Newsom
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• It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.

  

  Adam Davidson
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• You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.

  

  Laura Mvula
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• Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

  

  Katarina Witt
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• Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.

  

  Iggy Azalea
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• Tell the lie over and over and over. It's an art that Trump understands well. There's no better evidence than his absolutely false claim that he opposed the Iraq War in 2002.

  

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• Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

  

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• The other day I was thinking - because I get a lot of headaches - I was wondering whether the head should be where it is. Because, at the end of the day, it's probably the heaviest part of your body, right? And yet it's at the top as opposed to, I don't, dangling at the bottom somewhere.

  

  Karl Pilkington
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• My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.

  

  Damien Chazelle
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• I didn't used to do shows, because I used to be so shy. We'd perform, and I'd be at the back, thinking of another song. I was so shy, I ain't never getting in front of the camera; I would never get on stage.

  

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• We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.

  

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• Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things.

  

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• Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

  

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• By the time I was 16, the everlasting copying of stuffed birds and withered flowers at the Strasbourg School of Applied Art not only poisoned drawing for me but destroyed my taste for all artistic activity. I took refuge in poetry.

  

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• We tend to think of orphans as being the protagonist of stories we read when we're kids, and yet here you are: you're an adult, you're supposed to manage, you're supposed to get over it, you're supposed to go on with your life, and you feel like a lost child.

  

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• I've been on my grind to be the best player I can.

  

  Zach LaVine
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• My job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across.

  

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• I think it's the strength of her music, using art to make a statement. I think it really is. It was not a cheap gift. The gift was an expensive gift for Nina [Simone]. Diamonds are expensive. Her music was expensive. She paid for it, but I think it's her greatest gift.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Diamond